PSU Problem?

teeheiman · 03-31-2006, 12:03 AM

Im expereincing some weird problems, first of all when im trying to play high end video games, it takes a really long time to load or just freezes on the loading screen. Second I have 2 hard drives with fresh installs with a with only a few gigs i put on them but it says ive used up about 150 gigs alrdy and I only see about 6 on the actual drives. Im thinking maybe I dont have enough power for what im running. AT first i thought it was the memory so I got a new stick. Before this, my computer was sdoing random restarts + the same stuff happening now. Before I put the new memory in, my games would crash then restart my comp, now with the new memory it just crashed the game but no restart. Also since the begining ive never been able to run memtests It would always restart once i got there. Let me give you the sepcs on the comp. Other then thoughs problems the comps pretty much running fine. Also if anyone can add what the symptoms would be for a lack of power supply? I just dont get why the new memory fixed some of the problems but not all.

Brand new just built
450W Master Power
Cooler Master case 2x fans
Asus p5nd2 SLI Motherboard
Pentium 4 3.2 Hyper Threading
2x Geforce 6800 Extreme
2x Ultra DMA 250G 13mb c
1x DVD/CD-W/Burner
4 USB Ports
1 IEEE 1394 PCI Card
1GB 533 DDR2
Windows XP SP2

Thank you,
Billy

Techie101 · 03-31-2006, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by teeheiman

Im expereincing some weird problems, first of all when im trying to play high end video games, it takes a really long time to load or just freezes on the loading screen. Second I have 2 hard drives with fresh installs with a with only a few gigs i put on them but it says ive used up about 150 gigs alrdy and I only see about 6 on the actual drives. Im thinking maybe I dont have enough power for what im running. AT first i thought it was the memory so I got a new stick. Before this, my computer was sdoing random restarts + the same stuff happening now. Before I put the new memory in, my games would crash then restart my comp, now with the new memory it just crashed the game but no restart. Also since the begining ive never been able to run memtests It would always restart once i got there. Let me give you the sepcs on the comp. Other then thoughs problems the comps pretty much running fine. Also if anyone can add what the symptoms would be for a lack of power supply? I just dont get why the new memory fixed some of the problems but not all.

Brand new just built
450W Master Power
Cooler Master case 2x fans
Asus p5nd2 SLI Motherboard
Pentium 4 3.2 Hyper Threading
2x Geforce 6800 Extreme
2x Ultra DMA 250G 13mb c
1x DVD/CD-W/Burner
4 USB Ports
1 IEEE 1394 PCI Card
1GB 533 DDR2
Windows XP SP2

Thank you,
Billy

What is your cpu temperature? I think your CPU is overheating when you try and play a game.

dai · 03-31-2006, 10:06 AM

your p/s needs to be putting out a min of 34a on the 12v lines
and as suggested above heat

teeheiman · 04-03-2006, 12:59 PM

Do you look in the bios for psu temp? I cant seem to find it, all I found is my CPU temp and that was 35-38 c.

Also if you can, could you suggest the lowest priced psu that would work for me?

Thanks,
Billy

dai · 04-03-2006, 01:07 PM

i don't know of any that read a psu temp
with power supplies you get what you pay for,you can scrimp on something else,but not the power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817103932

teeheiman · 04-03-2006, 01:25 PM

Great thank you, but do these signs point to the psu, because I lost my receipt for the psu so im pretty much stuck with my old one. I just dont understand why changeing the memory would make it slighty run better, and how the hard drives are saying ive used up more space then i actualy have.

dai · 04-03-2006, 01:34 PM

run
chkdsk /r
on the h/drive and see if it picks anything up

03-31-2006, 12:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
teeheiman Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3 OS: xp	PSU Problem? Im expereincing some weird problems, first of all when im trying to play high end video games, it takes a really long time to load or just freezes on the loading screen. Second I have 2 hard drives with fresh installs with a with only a few gigs i put on them but it says ive used up about 150 gigs alrdy and I only see about 6 on the actual drives. Im thinking maybe I dont have enough power for what im running. AT first i thought it was the memory so I got a new stick. Before this, my computer was sdoing random restarts + the same stuff happening now. Before I put the new memory in, my games would crash then restart my comp, now with the new memory it just crashed the game but no restart. Also since the begining ive never been able to run memtests It would always restart once i got there. Let me give you the sepcs on the comp. Other then thoughs problems the comps pretty much running fine. Also if anyone can add what the symptoms would be for a lack of power supply? I just dont get why the new memory fixed some of the problems but not all. Brand new just built 450W Master Power Cooler Master case 2x fans Asus p5nd2 SLI Motherboard Pentium 4 3.2 Hyper Threading 2x Geforce 6800 Extreme 2x Ultra DMA 250G 13mb c 1x DVD/CD-W/Burner 4 USB Ports 1 IEEE 1394 PCI Card 1GB 533 DDR2 Windows XP SP2 Thank you, Billy

03-31-2006, 10:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,551 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	your p/s needs to be putting out a min of 34a on the 12v lines and as suggested above heat __________________

04-03-2006, 01:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,551 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	i don't know of any that read a psu temp with power supplies you get what you pay for,you can scrimp on something else,but not the power supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817103932 __________________

04-03-2006, 01:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,551 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	run chkdsk /r on the h/drive and see if it picks anything up __________________

04-03-2006, 12:59 PM	#4 (permalink)
teeheiman Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3 OS: xp	Do you look in the bios for psu temp? I cant seem to find it, all I found is my CPU temp and that was 35-38 c. Also if you can, could you suggest the lowest priced psu that would work for me? Thanks, Billy

04-03-2006, 01:25 PM	#6 (permalink)
teeheiman Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3 OS: xp	Great thank you, but do these signs point to the psu, because I lost my receipt for the psu so im pretty much stuck with my old one. I just dont understand why changeing the memory would make it slighty run better, and how the hard drives are saying ive used up more space then i actualy have.